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Photograph of Mike Mahoney on the White House grounds.

Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.
by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020
Billboard for "Gateway to the Canyons" featuring a painting of Plains Indians meeting Spanish Catholic monks.

The Black Legend Lives

A review of "Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest."
by Jeremy Beer via Commonweal on July 1, 2020
Statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, knocked off its pedastal

whentheycamedown

A collaborative project that set out in the summer of 2020 to document the removal of monuments through both official and unofficial channels.
via whentheycamedown.com on July 1, 2020

America’s Long War on Children and Families

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.
by Paul M. Renfro via Boston Review on June 22, 2020

Now Do Lincoln

Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.
by Nick Martin via The New Republic on June 11, 2020

A War for Settler Colonialism

Refocusing the study of the Civil War on the West shows that events out west were not simply “noteworthy”; they were emblematic.
by Paul Barba via Muster on March 3, 2020

The Shameful Final Grievance of the Declaration of Independence

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Atlantic on February 8, 2020

Why Historical Analogy Matters

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.
by Peter E. Gordon via New York Review of Books on January 7, 2020
Travels through Virginia. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White. Depicting American Indians dancing.
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The Construction of America, in the Eyes of the English

In Theodor de Bry’s illustrations for "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," the Algonquin are made to look like the Irish. Surprise.
by Ed Simon via JSTOR Daily on December 4, 2019
A woman walking toward an isolated house on the Navajo reservation.

The Native American Women Who Fought Mass Sterilization

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.
by Brianna Theobald via TIME on November 27, 2019

Rising Seas Threaten Hundreds of Native American Heritage Sites Along Florida’s Gulf Coast

Hundreds of ancient Native American sites along the Gulf Coast are at risk.
by Jayur Mehta, Tara Skipton via The Conversation on October 11, 2019
Painting of cavalry with swords drawn heading into U.S.-Mexico War battle.

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.
by Greg Grandin via Boston Review on January 9, 2019

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018

Department of State’s Dissent Channel Revealed

Dozens of newly declassified documents show foreign service staff raising serious concerns about a range of U.S. policies abroad.
by Nate Jones, Tom Blanton, Emma Sarfity via National Security Archive on March 15, 2018

How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 years of tribalism, genocide, expulsion, and imprisonment.
by T. J. Stiles via Literary Hub on January 31, 2018

An Independence Day Alternative

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.
by Nicholas Guyatt via Jacobin on July 4, 2017
Elderly Jewish woman at temple with a lit candle.

America’s Dangerously Shallow Understanding of the Holocaust

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.
by Andrea Pitzer via Vox on May 4, 2017
Demonstrators protesting Trump's immigration policy toward Muslims outside the Supreme Court.

Human Rights in the Era of Trump

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.
by Mark Philip Bradley via Perspectives on History on January 31, 2017
Portrait of William Apess.

The Greatest Native American Intellectual You’ve Never Heard Of

The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.
by Phillip F. Gura via What It Means to Be American on April 17, 2015
Text overlay over a photograph of a WW1 soldier aiming a machine gun over a pile of sandbags.

40 Maps That Explain World War I

Why the war started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same.
by Matthew Yglesias, Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee via Vox on August 14, 2014
“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” an 1885 parody of an 1850 painting by Charles Lucy.

Thankstaking

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?
by Jane Kamensky via Commonplace on January 1, 2001
Spread from Vine Deloria, Jr.'s essay "The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper."

The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper

An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.
by Vine Deloria Jr. via Art In America on July 1, 1972

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